distfix

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distfix - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  distfix
  
     <programming> ("distributed fixity"?) A description of an
     operator represented by multiple symbols before, between,
     and/or after the arguments.
  
     The classical example is the C conditional operator, "?:"
     which is written
  
     	E1 ? E2 : E3
  
     If E1 is true it returns E2 otherwise it returns E3.  Several
     functional programming languages, e.g. Hope, Haskell,
     have similar operators ("if E1 then E2 else E3").
  
     Objective C messages are effectively distfix operator
     applications:
  
     	getRow:row andColumn:col ofCell:cell
  
     is a message with three arguments, row, col, and cell.
  
     (1997-01-21)